Since we were recently talking about human rights in class I came across this article about a Chinese man who was put in a mental ward by his local government for repeated land disputes that he had with them. However this has been a growing problem for the Chinese. Now that police have less power to put people in jail for speaking against the government they are being forced into mental institutions by getting forged documents. At times being in mental institutions in China are worse than jail. Not that I have any idea what jail is like in China but it would definitely be worse than being in an American jail. The one man in particular that the article talks about the in humane treatments that he went through from being forced drugs to multiple shock treatments. To me it seemed more experimental than anything. He is not the only one there is a record of over 200 others who have went through the same thing. Unfortunately there is not really anything that we can do other than try to put some political pressure on China to stop this kind of treatment but that has been pretty unsuccessful in the past. Only time will tell what will happen with the multiple human rights violations throughout the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/world/asia/12psych.html?_r=1&ref=world
Ed Barry
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